Home Media Magazine has published the year to date sales according to Nielsen leading up to Nov 11th, 2007.
On page one you have the pie chart showing the year to date High Def Market Share. BD Leads HD-DVD 66:34.
One Page 11, you have the ratios of the best selling titles so far in the High Def Market. Again, the ratios work by seeing what is the top selling title and then the others are relative to that. So if the number one spot sold X number of copies then second spot sold X times the percentage ratio of second place.
1. 300 BD - 100.00
2. Transformers HD-DVD - 67.57
3. 300 HD-DVD - 52.84
4. Casino Royale BD - 51.83
5. The Departed BD - 33.79
6. POTC:DMC BD - 33.68
7. Planet Earth HD-DVD - 30.71
8. POTC:COBP BD - 29.79
9. Planet Earth BD - 29.19
10. Apocalypto BD - 26.70
First glance shows 7 BD titles in top ten versus 3 HD-DVD titles. 300 was the highest selling aggregate title. Transformers being an HD-DVD exclusive clearly has had an affect. What is surprising is the small ratio difference between planet earth hd-dvd and bd. Previously it was believed to be selling much higher on hd-dvd.
